My Prize!

I received my prize from Scrapbook.com - I entered the contest they were having during December. It was a cards & tags challenge. I won $30.00 worth of products. Thank you Kels & Scrapbook.com

The prize contains the following: 2 - 6x6 pads (1- Webster's Pages Holiday Collection Pack, 1 - My Mind's Eye Bluebell Collection), Making Memories Rub-ons Giggle Kids, Elle's Studio - Lil' Snippets: Labels - Saltwater, Zva Creative Bling Embellishment, Bo Bunny - Smoochable Dimensional Stickers, Webster's Pages-Polka Dots Embellishments, Webster's Pages Designer Washi Tape - New Beginings, Doodlebug design Inc. - Treat Bags, K &Company - Brenda Walton - Flower Petal Fabric Art, Petaloo Floral Embellishments, Kaiser Craft Collectables Enchanted Garden Die cut Shapes, Prima Chipboard Stickers, Crate Paper - Pretty Party Eclectric Buttons, Webster's Pages Trim & Ribbon - Black Sequin Roll.

These are the card and tags I entered.

The Birthday Bash is On!!

The Birthday Bash for Cookin' Up Creations 4th year is happening all month long. I am so happy to be a part of it. I'veonly been with Cookin' Up Creations for a year and it's an fantastic year. I really enjoy being a part of the DT there.

Ok, Let me tell you me have some fun things planned and already going on the site. In the forum we have challenges being posted(1 -2 daily) and games and I know there will some prizes too.

I was the first to post a challenge. It's called Celebration of course. It a fun color combo + Sketch challenge.

Here is the layout I created for the challenge.

The papers use on this layout are background yellow honeycomb Glitz -Cashmere Dame, dark green mini dot, blue camera are Amy Tangerine, the light green(it look light yellow in the picture) is Dear Lizzy, yellow large dot is Simple Stories, the medium blue paper is from TLC older paper in my stash. Orange light and dark are my stash.

Close up of all the details.

Side view to show dimension. 

Close up of journaling.

I did the journaling on vellum (it has some gold wavy lines and small dot flowers) I had that vellum in my stash for a while so not sure who made it. I know it was a 12x12 sheet I just cut a bit of it to use on the layout.

 All the gold chevron are hand cut from chipboard and covered with gold metallic vellum paper.  The little word strip is from a manufacture strip, Puffy camera & arrow and green swirly flower are Amy Tangerine, AC Glitter tape, enamel & metallic dots, stick pin Joann's. The mist droplets are Color Shine gold from Heidi Swapp & White metallic acrylic paint from Accent

The two shades of orange die cuts are the same shape just one is slightly larger. They are speckled with gesso and metallic white acrylic paint for texture. The little flags are free printable by Banana Fish Studio. The enamel dots are MME, the metallic dots are Heidi Grace, the gold flag is AC glitter tape, the little blue puffy is Amy Tangerine, and the stick pins are from the sewing section at Joann's. 

The gold Thickers Sunrise (chipboard), Maya Road star stick pin. The little flags are free printable by Banana Fish Studio,the gold flag is AC glitter tape, The enamel dots are MME, the metallic dots are Heidi Grace, the gold flag is AC glitter tape, the little puffy heart is Amy Tangerine.

The cardstock words are from the Cricut,, The arrow cutout is Elle's studio. 

I hope you join us over at Cookin' Up Creations for all the Birthday Bash fun. 

Over at Cookin' Up Creations we're having all sorts of fun with Nursery Rhymes. I have today's Nursery Rhyme Challenge. I chose If All The World Were Paper.

If all the world were paper,

and all the sea were ink,

if all the trees

were bread and cheese,

what should we have to drink?

I chose to focus on the Ink & paper part of the rhyme. I challenge everyone to use misters on their projects. It could be a paint or dye/ink mister. 

Here is the layout I created for the challenge

Items I used on this layout are the following:

Carstock: Tan - Darice, Light Pink -DCWV

Pattern Paper: Coffee Bean - Paper Pizzaz, Floral, Stripe & Dot - MME

Stamps & stamp Press: Fiskars - Latte Love, Watercolor Pencils: Faber-Castell

Letters: Cloud9/Colorbok, Ink: Ranger Archival- Jet Black & Tim Holtz Distress ink - Walnut, Paints: Plaid - Brown, Pale Cream, Rhasberry & Black, Washi Tape: Target. Adhesive: Tobow, Pop dots: Recollections, Thread: Coats & Clark, Trimmer & Deco Scissors: Fiskars, Other: Coffee Sleeve - Joe Muggs - BAM

I hope you stop by and join us in all the challenges. If you do the challenge posted above link me.